ValidateThis is an object oriented validation framework designed with the following goals in mind:

- Allow for an unlimited number of validation types (e.g., Required, Email, EqualTo, Range, etc.) and allow for new validation types to be added without requiring any modifications to the core or existing validations.

- Ability to define validation rules in metadata (e.g., in an xml file) and automatically generate code, on the fly, for both client-side and server side validations. This will include automatic failure message generation.

- Return metadata when validations fail, to allow an application developer to implement flexible message display options.

- Any invalid values submitted by a user will be available for display via the business object for which the validation was performed.

- The framework should be persistence layer agnostic. it should be possible to integrate it with any ORM or custom developed model.

- The framework should be MVC framework agnostic. it should be possible to integrate it with any existing or homegrown MVC framework.

More information is available at http://www.validatethis.org

Updates:
- version 0.75 added internationalization (i18n) support
- version 0.8 added a Coldbox Plugin
- version 0.91 added support for ColdFusion on Wheels objects and Groovy objects

I will be happy to try to answer any questions that anyone has who is attempting to use the code. In the interest of keeping things DRY, I request that any questions be directed to the Google group at http://groups.google.com/group/validatethis.

1/5/12 CFSelenium 1.7 - Upgrades for Selenium 2.16 and Firefox 9
1/5/12 ValidateThis 1.1 - User Contributed Fixes and Features
11/7/11 ValidateThis 1.0 - A True Community Effort
10/21/11 cf.Objective() 2012 - Call For Speakers and Topic Suggestion Survey Now Open!
9/15/11 My Adobe ColdFusion Developer Week Session on ORM

- A new validation type: notRegex.
- A bunch of small fixes.

ColdFusion 8.0.1, or Railo 3.1. OpenBD is not currently supported.

ColdFusion 9 is required for annotation support.

Some Demo apps require either Reactor or Coldspring 1.2 and Transfer 1.0. The StructureDemo has no additional requirements.

This project has an external bug tracker. You can find it here:
https://github.com/ValidateThis/ValidateThis/issues

This project hosts its source control at an external location:
http://github.com/ValidateThis/ValidateThis